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Basic Cooking Series; Perfect hard boiled eggs.

I recall one day my lil cousin was complaining about how the eggs he boiled to eat with his noodles were all ‘messed up’ because it was partially raw inside.

Not everyone likes half boiled eggs. Me inclusive. He asked me ‘ Chichi how do you boil your eggs to get them hard boiled?’

In my past life😜 It used to be a hit and miss for me, then I decided to cook it for a looonnnngggg…. time but then that wasn’t helpful either because I would waste my gas and the eggs would be over boiled with that darkish grey outer layer on the yolk.

Nahhhhh I love my yolks yellow and succulent.

I finally decided to time it and voila I got my perfect boiled eggs. I even discovered along the line that I like the soft boiled version too but not half boiled one though 🤢

These are the two variations I like. So I would stick to those.

About peeling the eggs. My friend thought me to peel them under running tap water and it works magic.

Let’s get started.

Recipe

Prep Time: Yield: 6 eggs

Cook Time: 14 mins + 1 min 👇

Ingredients:

6 eggs

water

Directions:

Put the eggs in a saucepan and cook for 14 mins.

Perfect hard boiled eggs

Let sit on stove top for about a minute.

Perfect hard boiled eggs

Either you pour out the hot water from the pot or you use a slotted spoon to get the eggs out of the hot water.

Then ‘shock’ the eggs by running cold water over them.

Peel and enjoy.

Perfect hard boiled eggs

Perfect hard boiled eggs

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